Brms for ordinal outcome (Ridge, LASSO, Elastic Net)

Yes you can! Welcome to the Stan community.

You might find this post useful by the author of the {bmrs} package: Help with lasso example in brms - #7 by paul.buerkner

What you are looking for is called the Horsehoe Prior (Regularized horseshoe priors in brms — horseshoe • brms) which is better than the LASSO prior (Set up a lasso prior in brms — lasso • brms) in bayesian models.

Also see these references:

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